Marcus Hook Sets Fourth Of July Celebration Details
Marcus Hook announces a all day July 4 celebration with a pie contest and cash prizes. Events run 9:30 am to after 7 pm including flag raising by Cub Scout Pack 442, field contests at Marcus Hook Junior High, various races, a Miss Marcus Hook contest, an aerial ladder display by Viscose Mire Company, and an amateur hour in the school auditorium. Entry blanks due July 3 from borough venues and committees.
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Marcus Hook
Borough Hall
Cub Scout Pack
Marcus
Viscose Mire Company
Stesis News Store
Marcus Woak Fire Company
Marcus Hook-Damon & Foster Appointed Borough Engineer
The firm Marcus Hook-Damon & Foster, based in Sharon Will, was chosen as the borough engineer to fill the unexpired term of Chester I Baker ending January 1964. The appointment followed a special council meeting to select an engineer, discuss sewer disposal plant, and oversee high‑wily repairs. Bills for the repair work were ordered paid upon contract completion.
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Marcus Hook
Damon & Foster
Sharon Will
Chester I. Baker
Pan
Prospect Park Troop 91 Honors Nine Girl Scouts
Nine girls from Troop 1 received the Curved Bar rank at Prospect Methodist Church with leaders Mrs J Weldon Phillips and Mrs Charles Bainbridge presenting. First class ranks went to twelve scouts including Janet Humes and Kathryn McArdie. 114 badges earned by 22 girls.
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Prospect Park
Prospect Methodist Church
Marilyn Michie
Maryin Phillips
Jimette Sampson
Lillian Worrell
Barbara Petsch
Marcia Plennert
Kathryn McArdie
Karen Hoppes
Constance Baleshiere
Janet Humes
Jo Ann
Arhur Aker
Ratiges
Phillips
School Board Plans Loan for High School Additions
GLENOLDEN The school board will borrow 25 066 dollars from Broad Street Trust Co to fund its share of relocating four classrooms at the senior high school. In other actions the board approved repairs to the oil burner system at Logan Avenue School and bids for waterproofing and exterior pointing. They also remodelled a basement classroom at Logan Avenue School into a faculty room with costs not to exceed 500 dollars plus furniture and hired Ronald Staley as assistant castalian for July and August along with five summer recreation program staff at Glenolden Park.
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Glenolden
Broad Street Trust Co
Logan Avenue
Boon
Ronald Staley
Castalian
Glenolden Park
Girl Scouts Move Girls Up In Glenolden Park Ceremony
Outdoor moving day staged by Glenolden Neighborhood Girl Scouts in Glenolden Park. Mrs. Peter L. Weimer led the promotion exercises announcing 8 Brownies moved to Juniors and 30 more moved to Cadettes. Troops listed with sponsors and leaders, reflecting a community volunteer effort.
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Glenolden
Glenolden Park
Peter L. Weimer
Cadet Scout Troop 285 Camps At YMCA Downingtown
Cadet Scout Troop 285 with 16 girls and leaders spent three days at the YMCA Camp in Downingtown. The trip included Mrs J and Mrs Paul Damanskis among others, with additional troops and leaders from the neighborhood Girl Scout community. A Neighborhood Girl Scout camp is set for July 12 to 14 at Sunset Hill and Chadds Ford facilities.
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YMCA
Downingtown
Paul Damanskis
Sunset Hill
Antlaverate Reed
Sendy Rue
Aaron Batchelor
Chadds Ford
Dolph
Harold Rosenthal
Peter L
Weimer
Mahlon GC. Shotts
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Prospect Troop 91
Hoppes
Michie
Worrell
Piellips
Balestriere
Betsch
Cetay PeKco
Diamond Ice & Fuel CO
2Nd & Tilghman
Chester, PA
Girl Scouts
Glenolden Fire Company
Williams, Dennety
E. G. Linkinson
T. P. Baylor
Parent Teacher Association
John Neilson
Fred C. North
Leroy Porter
Frederick Hoot
Fe, Davis
William G. Smith
Glendale Civile Association
Richard Bilger
Arthur Sampson
Wom.en’s Club
Florida Professional Academy
Arthur Godfrey Road
Miami
Leach
Florida
Aed
Chevrolet
TNT
Chevy IL
Corvair
Corveite
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